On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 06:47:23PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Ok, it uses an assignment, but it has almost the same effect (except for
> pointer/integer values).
Wrong. A cast throws away information, making meaningful warnings impossible.
The assignment allows the compiler to apply the usual C integral
promotions and catch narrowing and non-value-preserving conversions,
like unsigned int to int, or an even more common bug, unsigned int to
long, which behaves differently depending on whether long is 32 or 64
bits.
Regards,
Bill Rugolsky
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